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On Things Atomic

Conference Programme

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All sessions will take place in University College, Rooms 224/225.

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Thursday, February 12

13:00-13:30: Registration

13:30: Introductory Remarks by Dean George Emery

13:30-15:00: Opening Address

Moderator: Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu
Rebecca Comay (Toronto): "Hegel and Terror"

15:00-15:30: Coffee Break

15:30-17:00: Session 1

In re-presenting the age of the bomb
Moderator: Elana Commisso

1. Jérôme Dorvidal - "AAA - Australia Allergic Atom: L'Expressivité des matérialisations iconographiques élaborées sur le cinquième continent (1945-1975)"
2. Chris Eaket - "Iteration, Performativity, and the Compulsion to Repeat: In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer"
3. Aviva Atlani - "The Doubling of Pain in Hiroshima Mon Amour"

20:00-Late: Conference pub
at the Brass Door, 186 King Street

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Friday, February 13

09:00-10:30: Session 2

Las partículas complejas
Moderator: Ana Monsalve

1. Enric Mallorquí-Ruscalleda - "Valle-Inclán, Carlos Fuentes y la lectura transatlántica de la tradición clásica"
2. Natalia Cousté - "Complejidad social: información, representación y emergencia de un nuevo 'yo' en la novela picaresca"
3. Lauren Beck - "On Metaphor and Complexity"

10:30-10:45: Coffee Break

10:45-12:15: Keynote Speaker

Moderator: Juan-Luis Suárez
Héctor Libertella (Buenos Aires): "La arquitectura del fantasma en literatura"

12:15-13:00: Lunch

13:00-15:00: Parallel Sessions

Session 3 - La construcción de la lingüística atómica
Moderator: Natalia Cousté

1. Elizabeth Ramírez - "La Hipótesis del período crítico en la adquisición del Español como L2: el caso del género y número"
2. Alma P. Ramírez - "Problemas de género en el uso de artículos definidos e indefinidos en Español como L2"
3. Emma Seth - "La suerte de ser Portugués: Una investigación del pretérito e imperfecto con los verbos ser y estar en la adquisición del Español como segunda lengua"
4. Patricia Bayona - "La pasta se come con salsa: la construcción reflexiva media en Español"

Session 4

The Atomic Muse Despatches
Moderator: Chris Bundock

1. Chris Lockett - "'A Screaming Comes Across the Sky': Thomas Pynchon's Weapons of Mass Destruction"
2. Cristina Ionica - "Who Wants to Go with the Atomic Flow? Contrasting Answers on the Big
Screen: The Coen Brothers and Krzysztof Kieslowski"
3. Alexandra di Ninno - "Well's Warning: The Time Machine as a Social and Biological Lesson for Late Victorian Culture"
4. Maria Ionita, "Narrative 'mean time' -- Zenonian Strategies in Tristram Shandy"

15:00-15:15: Coffee Break

15:15-16:45: Session 5

Parting (W)holes
Moderator: Mark Feltham

1. Robyn Lee - "The Simulated Atom: Evacuating the Unit"
2. Jody McNabb - "Lucretius' Atomic Infinity: Ethical Boundaries and Infinite Pleasures"
3. Alexei Procyshyn - "Poetics of…in Tractatus Logico Philosophicus"

16:45-17:00: Coffee Break

17:00-18:30: Roundtable

"Small, Smaller, Gone"

Organizer: Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu
Discussants: Tom Carmichael, Elias Polizoes, Hynek Zykmund

19:30-Late: Dinner

At Scallions

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Saturday, February 14

9:30-11:00: Session 6

La liminalidad atómica
Moderator: Allison Mackey

1. Mirela Butnaru - "¿Existe el Nuevo Historicismo de manera atómica?"
2. Ana Monsalve - "Lo mágico y lo trágico en El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba"
3. Kat Austin - "Lo explosivo en las pinturas negras de Goya: la vida y la muerte"
4. Monserrat Bores Martínez - “Los Naufragios de Alvar Núñez de Cabeza de Vaca: un discurso generador de
espacios para la representación del <<yo>> del náufrago.”

11:00-11:15: Coffee Break

11:15-12:45: Session 7

Spaced Out (Cyber)Shapes
Moderator: Carmen Barbu

1. Ariel Fuenzalida - "Body Morphing and the Problem of the Post-Human"
2. Matt Tiessen - "Flatness: Flat Objects, Flat Metaphors, and Contemporary Compression"
3. Mark Feltham - "Atomic Joyce: Ulysses, Hypertext, and the Printed Codex Book"

12:45-13:30: Lunch

13:30-15:00: Session 8

Ordering Complexity
Moderator: Petra Hroch

1. John Vanderheide -"On Things Adamic: A Schizoanalytic Meditation on Mulholland Drive"
2. Jeremy Leipert - "Order in Entropy: Spontaneous Generation of Order in Systems of Molecules and Language"
3. Ingrid Mittmannsgruber - "On Things Immaterial: Modern Physics and Philosophy as Mirror Reflections of a Common Surface?"

15:00-15:15: Coffee Break

15:15-16:45 Session 9

Unit(ed) I Stand
Moderator: Dustin Atlas

1. Shea Coulson - "The Peculiar Particular: The Question of Unicity in Levinas"
2. Selena Horrell - "Worlding Corporeality in Jean Luc Nancy's 'Corpus'"
3. Robyn Walker - "Dreaming through Dirt"

16:45-17:00: Coffee Break

17:00-18:30: Closing Remarks

Moderator: Elias Polizoes
Walid Hamarneh (UWO): "The Wrecks of Matter and the Crush on Worlds"

21:00-Late: Party

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